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STRONGEST One-Punch Man Discussion Thread!

WC drive knight twist has good foreshadowing and hints
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It's in the manga
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I see a lot of people saying ONE has improved in his art, so my question is do you think ONE has actually improved compared to his Mob Psycho days?
 
Recon1511 said:
Anyway here are my thoughts about the chapter and really about something that irks me a little about the webcomic, nothing too bad though.

I liked this new WC chapter but it shows a few faults that irk me a little when reading it.

I feel like ONE relies too much on the audience having read the manga already to make some developments seem more "natural" than they actually are. Which, fair, might as well capitalize on that but it makes it harder to appreciate the WC narrative as its own thing and precisely in this chapter we have the two biggest examples of it.

Kuseno: He is a character that is absent for 98% of the WC and after his "death" its revealed he was actually a twist villain the whole time

Is it cool? Hell yeah

But one can't help but feel this is a rather sudden twist that should have gotten not only more set up but actually time to familiarize ourselves more with Kuseno before his "death". Like come on, he literally just finishes introducing himself in the same chapter he fakes his death.

ONE is aware of this issue, that's why he made him appear earlier in the manga in the Hotpot chapter and he overall has gotten more attention though it wouldn't hurt to give him further screentime before the reveal.

Drive Knight: In the WC he dissapears from the story for 100 chapters, comes back, shows off his forms against some fodder monsters and now its revealed he was a Robot the whole time and a pawn of Kuseno.

Again, cool but this is all rather sudden...

Most of the theorycrafting and hype around him came from ONE deciding to include him in the MA arc in the manga, letting him not only show off his powers but also sprinkling a few hints of his motives, methods and even a possible allegiance to the Organization...

And when Drive Knight fused with Genos that wasn't only cool but raised some eyebrows, not only are they somehow able to do that but their Cores look extremely similar.

So when this reveal happens it's really a payoff to people who theorized about the things he was shown to do in the manga rather than the webcomic

I've personally always treated the WC as a draft that is then properly fleshed out in the manga so it doesn't bother me that much but it's something that I've noticed and makes trying to evaluate the WC on it's own merits almost impossible.

It does make it pretty amusing to see the wc elitist types celebrating something that really only works thanks to the manga supposed "unnecessary fluff" though lol
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This is a very jumbled story isn’t it

An original material webcomic that got adapted into a manga with more material, looped around and started putting that new material into itself but after it appears in the manga, and then said manga every so often goes “ignore the last cluster of chapters, those didn’t happen”
 
I enjoyed the new webcomic chapter a lot!
Recon1511 said:
Anyway here are my thoughts about the chapter and really about something that irks me a little about the webcomic, nothing too bad though.

I liked this new WC chapter but it shows a few faults that irk me a little when reading it.

I feel like ONE relies too much on the audience having read the manga already to make some developments seem more "natural" than they actually are. Which, fair, might as well capitalize on that but it makes it harder to appreciate the WC narrative as its own thing and precisely in this chapter we have the two biggest examples of it.

Kuseno: He is a character that is absent for 98% of the WC and after his "death" its revealed he was actually a twist villain the whole time

Is it cool? Hell yeah

But one can't help but feel this is a rather sudden twist that should have gotten not only more set up but actually time to familiarize ourselves more with Kuseno before his "death". Like come on, he literally just finishes introducing himself in the same chapter he fakes his death.

ONE is aware of this issue, that's why he made him appear earlier in the manga in the Hotpot chapter and he overall has gotten more attention though it wouldn't hurt to give him further screentime before the reveal.

Drive Knight: In the WC he dissapears from the story for 100 chapters, comes back, shows off his forms against some fodder monsters and now its revealed he was a Robot the whole time and a pawn of Kuseno.

Again, cool but this is all rather sudden...

Most of the theorycrafting and hype around him came from ONE deciding to include him in the MA arc in the manga, letting him not only show off his powers but also sprinkling a few hints of his motives, methods and even a possible allegiance to the Organization...

And when Drive Knight fused with Genos that wasn't only cool but raised some eyebrows, not only are they somehow able to do that but their Cores look extremely similar.

So when this reveal happens it's really a payoff to people who theorized about the things he was shown to do in the manga rather than the webcomic

I've personally always treated the WC as a draft that is then properly fleshed out in the manga so it doesn't bother me that much but it's something that I've noticed and makes trying to evaluate the WC on it's own merits almost impossible.

It does make it pretty amusing to see the wc elitist types celebrating something that really only works thanks to the manga supposed "unnecessary fluff" though lol
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I do agree with that.
 
It's actually a bit harder to tell properly since ONE actually had assistants for Mob Psycho as it was a manga he serialized, unlike the opm webcomic wich 100% him, but then again he has essentially infinite time for improving his art in the wc as there's no deadlines to meet.
He has honestly improved a lot over the course of both series in many aspects. The art is a lot clearer without losing the original feeling, the panelling was much better if not genius, the backgrounds are way better than what he used to draw (MP100 had assistants drawing them at true professional level, but if you compare how Mob's school looked like in early MP100 and current OPM background ONE'S growth in drawing them is enormous.)

I'd say he's improved a lot from MP100, specially in drawing backgrounds and getting a better grip of sense of scale, wich allows for the wc to finally reach potentially Tier 6 feats. But otherwise i'd say the artstyle keeps more or less the same level of detail, with the exception he also got better at drawing busy panels with a lot going on (like Drive Knight's arm shattering into a bajillion pieces, followed by Saitama shattering his body.
 
I mean, I'm certain the story by itself is still super interesting, but most of the hype comes from fans reading the Webcomic but with the manga characters in mind, and One must be aware of that

WC is still amazing on its own, and frankly, about time they get their profiles
 
As always the Webcomic stands at the top 🦾
It's my first time seeing an AI getting played and manipulated that hard in fiction!!! Fare well Drive Knight you will be missed 😭
 
Ok but what if Orochi sucking up magma is a 3 frame looped cut repeating for 20 seconds thus giving us a downgrade.
 
57Dev said:
Ok but what if Orochi sucking up magma is a 3 frame looped cut repeating for 20 seconds thus giving us a downgrade.
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Oddly enough, people would argue to not use the anime's version if, whatever it may be its timeframe, results in a downgrade

What matters is higher numbers

If the anime gave us smaller cities than the manga, it wouldn't ever be used aswell
 
Lightning_XXI said:
Oddly enough, people would argue to not use the anime's version if, whatever it may be its timeframe, results in a downgrade

What matters is higher numbers

If the anime gave us smaller cities than the manga, it wouldn't ever be used aswell
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I think that this season of the anime adaptation is so bad that it shouldn't be relied on for feats in general tbh.
 
There’s something bothering me about these latest manga chapters.
Are Murata’s assistants getting lazy with the shading? Because the difference in shading between these two panels is like night and day.
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Lightning_XXI said:
Oddly enough, people would argue to not use the anime's version if, whatever it may be its timeframe, results in a downgrade

What matters is higher numbers

If the anime gave us smaller cities than the manga, it wouldn't ever be used aswell
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Isn't total energy just KE + PE? We use the latter for Orochi afaik. So it is impossible for anime to downgrade him regardless of timeframe. The current idea is that anime timeframe would be enough of upgrade to trivialize PE but it is not like it would be entirely discarded.
 
Damage3245 said:
I think that this season of the anime adaptation is so bad that it shouldn't be relied on for feats in general tbh.
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I also don’t think One and Murata are too involved anyway, I haven’t seen any statements from them other than basic “oh man 3rd season” before it actually released.
 
the monsters being stronger than the MA is a big doubt ngl , i assume all of these monsters that started appearing are made using orochi cell DK took + cybernatic enhancements
 
If this statement is kept in the manga it would be pretty crazy
 
The weird part is DK very actively not only participared in collecting DNA samples and getring info on the monsters but also directly saw her in prime and then fought and got a sample of Psykorochi.
So you can't even say he's underestimating them.
 
Epiccheev said:
The weird part is DK very actively not only participared in collecting DNA samples and getring info on the monsters but also directly saw her in prime and then fought and got a sample of Psykorochi.
So you can't even say he's underestimating them.
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Drive Knight got samples like Nyan and Orochi, so his fight against Saitama in the manga should be more interesting
 
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